| Show A GREAT FUTURE FOR THE JEWS north american review when we see what great work the jews of europe have done despite the depressing influence of ages of restriction injustice and oppression what may not be hoped from the jews of america that the jew is by nature as well fitted for the duties of a husbandman or of a sailor or of a soldier or of an artisan as for those of a trader or a money changer any christian may satisfy himself by simply taking a concordance of the scriptures old and new bew jewish and christian and referring to the occupations therein cited he will find bud that the occupations of the jews when they possessed palestine were at least as various as the occupations cupat ions of the english under elizabeth can be shown to have been by a concordance of shakespeare what was the command of the lord of hosts to 10 the jews who were deported from jerusalem into babylonia babelonia Baby lonia build to yourselves houses bouses and dwell therein till your gardens and eat of the fruit thereof have not the jewson jews of our own lay day faithfully obeyed this command ever since they found a refuge in new jersey from those persecutions cincot not religious of 1880 and the course of which professor bohling of prague was not ashamed to charge sir moses mom montefiore fore then in his ninety linth year with encouraging the sacrifice of gentile maidens at the pass over has mr goldwin smith forgotten that this same atrocious calumny was levelled bevelled level led at the jews of damascus by a consular officer cerl not english Eug indeed but french no longer ago than in 1847 that the jew isby Is by nature odom gifted eted above many other rim races of men it does not become me to assert but such la is the concurrent testimony tee of the ages of christendom the very existence of christianity being itself a witness to the assertion granting the jew to be only the equal intellectually and morally of other men en what right or reason has any man to affirm ot of him that by a law of his nature his presence as a citizen eDlo enjoying ying equal rights with other citizens in a land of liberty and of plenty must prove a blight and not a blessing to that land and to all its of whatever lineage age and of whatever faith |
